A PS4 Thread: Because You Had to Play "Knack"

I think I posted elsewhere but I didn't feel like relating to other human beings over the weekend so I bought Batman: Arkham Knight and probably played through half the game

Not bad!

i'm ready to stop playing fallout iv and play something else for a while but i feel guilty bc there's so much of fallout iv left, but also i'm not getting much fun out of it anymore

Probably time to stop then. I got like that on Skyrim after sinking something like 200 hours into it. Admittedly there wasn't much left to do then though.

I have way too many hours in Metal Gear Solid V, and the end game is either the extra missions where you're either very limited on loadout and unable to use all the cool upgraded endgame gear, or just doing enemy base infiltrations which are kind of a slog

I really wish they had more "fuck em up, boss!" missions where you're using bigass sniper rifles from a great distance and using the weirder gear

Yeah I used the decoys maybe.. once? Used Hand of Jehuty like twice for kicks. It would have been awesome to have HAD to use them at some point.

you can, once you get proficient, make it through the main plot of the game without upgrading really anything at all, as long as you upgrade the rocket launcher to take out the one metal gear

mega facepalm occurred the one time I thought I had a tranq rifle equipped and it was actually an anti-materiel rifle. ended up not only removing some poor guy's head, but also wrecking the engine block of the jeep behind him, causing it to blow up and take out everyone

i keep thinking i'll play mgsV once they release a greatest hits package for the ps4 and i can play all the others i've never played before

I skipped a couple and own the fourth game, but people are highly skeptical they'll ever port that one. I guess coding directly for the graphics on the PS3 made it incredibly taxing to port.

I think the collection for PS3 plus MGS4 for PS3 followed by MGS V on PS4 is the closest you'll get for a long time, especially with Konami kind of taking the franchise into spinoff mode in Kojima's absence

Chronologically MGS V takes place after 3 but before 1 and 2

yo i didn't know we were talking about mgsv!!!

i just beat the last of the side ops the other night :) :) :) i had like a dozen of those "eliminate the tank unit" and "eliminate the armored convoy" or whtever missions left, which are just like not very fun, but i did it. still gonna dip in this game a bit to finish off some of the other little collectathons, which i am not usually into but i just wanna... idk BE in that game you know? once i'm done with it, mgs as i know it is over :(

it might be time for me to jump back in. i did my standard move earlier this year where i bought it, got obsessed for 15 hours, then promptly abandoned it, never to return. i don't know why. i didn't even see an embarrassing sex scene (that's how early on i am in the game). i feel like i should get back in just to one of those, if nothing else, it seems like a rite of passage for the modern game player

this was me with all games for many moons before the witcher 3, and at least two after (fallout 4 and the last of us). witcher 3 really grabbed me - it's easy to just play without any linear goal, but also has a story.

have only started with fallout 4 but still - graphically and generally just feels sort of dull and linear. i assume that changes if i play beyond the first hour, but it felt so basic and samey, unlike witcher 3 which managed to make even boring transit between two points beautiful or silent or full of action, with none of those three superior by default.

i didn't even finish fallout4 :(

i accidentally broke it i got this perk or something that iirc lets me snipe heads from like any distance at 95% accuracy and it wasn't fun to play after that

i found it boring graphically, the horrible weapons interfaces etc etc.

witcher 3 is way ahead of all this shit in terms of sheer joy. like one of my big wow moments early on it was just rowing a boat across a lake and it started to rain, and the motion of the boat on the water plus amazing sound design for the rain - not really seeing that depth in anything else i've played since getting a ps4.

FINE I'll get Witcher 3

strong move

this game.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12109802_10156121327705367_3593109838033001714_o.jpg

this game though.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12768163_10156595369805367_6155898342384590075_o.jpg

i liked it

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12841449_10156650351550367_6640925472269460822_o.jpg

i liked it a LOT.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13227523_10156937827250367_7610823141781289869_o.jpg

definitely going to actually finish this now after this thread - i've killed enough bandits, the main quest awaits.

I gave up on Witcher 3 like a year ago after about 20 hours investment. Just wasn't clicking for me. Started a new game last night tho. Y'all got me.

im worried im a little too advanced in the main story, i want to go back and start cleaning up side quests i think

this is why i haven't gotten very far i can't pass these up ever

join me in the witcher thread
i am playing again

The tack I've ultimately settled on for any big game is to do as many of the side jobs as possible before progressing with the main story. Because the side stuff just feels like a mop-up job after I've completed some epic task.

yeah thats what i've realized -- i would normally skip them at this point because the loot wont be any good but otoh they're usually so well done that it might be fun to play through them with low stakes

I was going to play my batman game last night but again... why the hell does the riddler want me to complete weird racetracks in the batmobile

I'd shelve that quest indefinitely but as you unlock pieces you get to play as Catwoman, which is fun

want to play Witcher 3... but Witcher 1 and 2 are in the backlog

high level titanfall play is just o_O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5tBwW2_4-Q

lots of announcements today - Last Of Us 2, Marvel vs Capcom, Knack 2 (lol), Wipeout 4K collection, Parappa HD (yey!), Yakuza 6 & 1st remake coming West etc.

Oh and Ni No Kuni 2 looks real pretty, although I could do without the voice acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZNmEJgXCE

TLoU 2.... all over my face pls

lots of announcements today - Last Of Us 2, Marvel vs Capcom, Knack 2 (lol), Wipeout 4K collection, Parappa HD (yey!), Yakuza 6 & 1st remake coming West etc.

Yeah, Knack was really bad for a launch game.

Got it for my six year old who loves it but compared to something like Ratchet and Clank or the Lego games, it's so boring and repetitive.

wipeout!!

finally the ps4 will feel like a proper playstation! still love breaking out the vita wipeout every now and again, even although i am v poor at wipeout and always have been

fucking hell 20 years since the first wipeout i am old ;_;

make playstation wipeout again

This newest slate of announcements is the first real inducement I've had to consider maybe possibly investing in a PS4 sometime within the next five years or so.

i used to get worked up about backward compatibility but life moves on i guess, i'm never going to play vib ribbon again am i

you can play vib-ribbon on the ps3 and vita iirc

once i move to a 4 i mean

oh yeah then you're fucked

thanks based sony

and goodbye to beyond good & evil ;_;

my ps3 has been sitting on the floor next to the television since I bought a ps4

I'd put it somewhere better, but... busy playing PS4

I just recently bought a protection plan for my PS3, ensuring I'll be firmly last gen for most of the remainder of this decade.

just realised that the ps3 is now just over 10 years old and that i now have a backlog of unplayed games which spans multiple console generations

i'm gonna die never having played nino no kuni aren't i

lol, i've just been giving systems and backlog away lately to friends
the look on my friend's face when she started playing super mario galaxy 2 was super classic

I have a copy of that that I still have to play - which is ridiculous because SMG is one of the best games I've ever played and I've mostly heard that the sequel is better.

And yet I'm worse on the other systems - vis my question here is: if I get a PS4 to catch up on a generation of games, will it be able to play the generation of PS3 games that I didn't play either?

Not from what I understand.

life is a river my friend